Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58a5f9f242c2bb94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2021-06-09 07:02:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 257eebb940b8d8615984ada875c5939a SHA-1: 34ebd542f5007da4666677ae75bda1c755282ea8 SHA-256: 58a5f9f242c2bb94e0c964df350092cf5b9c0910165efcd123f80c390a4aba9b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The file contains numerous links to external websites, many hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of 'utm_term' parameters in some URLs further supports the idea of tracking user engagement for malicious purposes, likely to distribute further payloads or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=class+11+computer+science+notes PDF link annotation
    • https://bevelec.com/bevelec/dossierMois/file/dojuxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.danvillern.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9u1pgki46gmnr0tgd8do3vpcj3/gejet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5eb0165fb5752c0a43de301a1fc1d583/43920362168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sport-jicin.cz/dokumenty/golokogifovoxajunadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chmelo.hu/sites/default/files/file/fujinomifatuxovone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfgmm.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6391685cb3---ludojidonasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alarrabnews.com/images/content/content/file/bubodiwulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn----7sbbjg7ctfs.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/130ef752b2e29e145546ec83dbf352d7/gedexok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160721177b7c07---fokewunufudebafusuzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecovn.vn/uploads/news_file/tanabozajudojoliwipunorup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.18fire.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ff962218c24d6c75f156acceadbf843d/lipivezokexixivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.teppiche-waschen-hamburg.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16099ef9c1302a---80067836724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://comicpapyrus.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/07076aec29434e8ec107f0b547204b66/4773706503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://controlcert.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160864d4ddc0fe---76330179921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80ackbssfuieecff0e8c.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/oltb2qgemjjcbf9udm0o7024h1/roburumuganabimifexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cdf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDF6 5036 bytes
SHA-256: 837e4d86f639ee7ca5137c321df650b270f82783f9284ed46cd7c87af44e1c3e
font_01_sfnt_off0000defe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEFE 10840 bytes
SHA-256: aed196e728d3afe4ebd4bf518dfa532da297a8236d9705d9b59693532b6ded75
font_02_sfnt_off00010429.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10429 16164 bytes
SHA-256: e296a61d2d303e35be9e1a35631556663d2780498efa7e8f3867bf557f172fe6